Terms of Use / EULA

Last updated: September 2026

These terms describe what you can expect from Fundamental and what we expect from you. They are written in plain English to keep things straightforward. We are still in private beta and recommend you have a lawyer review this document before relying on it for any regulated use case.

Who we are

Fundamental ("we," "us," or "the app") is a seasonal wellness companion based in the science of Ayurveda. These Terms of Use / EULA are also our Terms of Service. By using the app or the website at fundamental.lifestyle, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

License for the app

Subject to these terms, Fundamental grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to download, install, and use the app on Apple-branded products that you own or control, solely for your personal wellness use or another use expressly authorised by your subscription or written agreement. The app is licensed, not sold. This licence does not give you ownership of Fundamental's software, services, or content, and it ends when these terms or your right to use the app ends.

Not medical advice

Fundamental provides general educational content about seasonal living, food, and self-care practices. It is not a medical service. Nothing in the app is a diagnosis, prescription, treatment plan, or substitute for professional medical care.

Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use Fundamental. If the law where you live requires parental or guardian consent, or sets a higher minimum age, those requirements also apply. We do not knowingly permit anyone under 16 to create or use an account.

Your account

An account and sign-in are required to use Fundamental. Only signed-in account holders may use the service, and you may not bypass the sign-in flow. You are responsible for:

If you suspect someone else has accessed your account, change your password immediately and write to support@fundamental.lifestyle.

Account content and device state

When you are signed in, your account content is server-authoritative: the authenticated service is the source of truth for content such as practices, plans, recipes, journal entries, and other saved app data. To operate securely and reliably, Fundamental may still retain limited encrypted or sealed account-scoped state, cached content, migration or upload data, notification schedules, session-lock settings, encrypted sign-in tokens, and temporary files on your device. Legacy device content may remain while an explicitly confirmed migration is pending. This device state is not a promise that every local copy disappears immediately; it may be cleared by sign-out, account deletion, uninstall, or normal cache and retention processes as described in the Privacy Policy.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

Reverse engineering and automated extraction

Unless and only to the extent that applicable law gives you a non-waivable right, you must not reverse-engineer (including by decompiling or disassembling), attempt to derive source code or underlying ideas, or otherwise try to discover how the app or its services work. You must not use bots, scripts, crawlers, browser automation, or any other non-human means to access or extract the app, its services, or its content, including through scraping, crawling, harvesting, copying, indexing, downloading, or bulk extraction. You must not bypass or attempt to bypass authentication, access controls, subscription gates, usage limits, or rate limits, or probe the service in a way that defeats those safeguards.

You must not use content obtained through extraction or circumvention to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or build a dataset for a machine-learning or other model, or to build, populate, reproduce, or help operate a competing product or service. This section does not restrict your ownership of content you submit, legally required interoperability, or permitted security research carried out responsibly and in accordance with applicable law. Nothing here limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived.

Your content

The recipes, journal entries, plans, photos, notes, and other material you create in the app are yours. By using the app you grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to store and process this content solely so we can run the service for you. We do not claim ownership of your content and do not use it to train AI models.

If you choose to share data with a practitioner using a sharing code, you authorise us to transmit the categories you have enabled to that practitioner's account. You can revoke this at any time from the Profile screen.

Intellectual property

Fundamental owns or controls the protectable intellectual property in its software, original writing, original editorial selection, arrangement, and presentation, branding, and other original material, subject to the rights of contributors, licensors, and third parties. This does not give Fundamental exclusive rights in underlying facts, ideas, methods, ingredient lists, measurements, cooking methods, public-domain or classical source material, or third-party content that Fundamental does not own. Those materials may be used only subject to any rights that actually apply to them.

Fundamental Kitchen recipes

Fundamental owns or controls the creator's original Fundamental Kitchen recipe text, explanations, photographs and illustrations, and creative presentation, subject to any contributor or third-party rights. Ingredient lists, measurements, cooking methods, and other functional facts in a recipe may have narrower protection or may not be protected by copyright. Fundamental nevertheless protects its original expression and its creative selection, arrangement, editing, and presentation of those materials. We do not claim exclusive ownership of the underlying facts, ideas, methods, or public-domain or classical source material.

Original Fundamental brand materials

Fundamental owns or controls the original Fundamental logo artwork and the app and brand writing, including the Fundamental name, subtitle, introduction, and other original text, subject to contributor or third-party rights. Copyright may protect the original artwork and writing; names, titles, and short phrases generally receive different protection and may be protected by trademark or other applicable rights rather than copyright. We claim only the rights available to us.

You may not reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate, publicly display, perform, or commercially exploit Fundamental's protectable software, branding, original writing, recipes, editorial compilation, or visual elements except as expressly authorised by your active subscription plan, an in-app export, or our prior written permission.

Permitted use is preserved: Personal and Practitioner subscribers may use content in the app for their own wellness and client-care purposes and may make exports expressly provided or authorised by the app or their subscription terms. White-Label plans are currently paused for new self-service purchase and activation. If a White-Label subscription is already active, or if Fundamental later reopens the plan, the subscriber may present the app under their own brand only as defined in the applicable subscription agreement. No early-access registration creates a purchase, entitlement, or licence. No subscription grants the right to redistribute, sublicense, or use extracted content to build a competing product, except for rights expressly granted in the applicable subscription agreement or rights that cannot lawfully be waived.

Practitioner accounts

If you use Fundamental as a practitioner to manage clients, plans, and herb protocols, you agree that:

Third-party services

Fundamental relies on third-party services to function, including OpenAI for meal and recipe analysis, OpenStreetMap for location lookup, and the relevant app store or payment processor for paid subscriptions. By using these features you also agree to those providers' own terms. We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or privacy practices of third-party services beyond what is described in our Privacy Policy.

Payments and subscriptions

Paid plans are auto-renewable subscriptions. Current billing periods are one month or one year, as shown before purchase. Before you start a subscription, we show the plan title, price, billing period, any free trial, and renewal terms. The price is shown in your local currency where available and may include applicable taxes. If your plan includes a free trial, it becomes a paid subscription at the displayed price and billing period unless you cancel before the trial ends; any unused free-trial period ends when the paid subscription starts.

Subscriptions automatically renew for successive billing periods until cancelled. For an App Store purchase, payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase and the renewal charge is made within 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period to prevent the next charge. Manage or cancel an App Store subscription in your Apple ID account settings. For a web purchase, manage or cancel in the billing portal. Cancellation normally stops future renewals while access continues through the paid period. See our Privacy Policy and these Terms of Use / EULA for the related disclosures.

Refunds are handled by the processor that took payment. For App Store purchases, request a refund from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com; for web purchases, contact support@fundamental.lifestyle or use the in-app refund request when available. A refund may end paid access or remove purchased AI credits, subject to the processor's decision and applicable law.

Right of withdrawal (EU 14-day cooling-off)

If you are a consumer in the European Union or a region with similar consumer-protection law, you may withdraw from a purchase within 14 days without giving a reason and receive a full refund, subject to any legally permitted exception for digital content or services that began with your express request and acknowledgement.

After the applicable 14-day period, you can still cancel to stop future charges, and Apple or the web payment processor may grant refunds under its own policies.

Apple App Store terms, support, and claims

These terms are between you and Fundamental, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app, its content, its maintenance, or its support. Fundamental, not Apple, is responsible for addressing support requests and claims relating to the app or your possession or use of it, including product-liability, consumer-protection, privacy, and intellectual-property claims, and for ensuring that the app complies with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no warranty obligation for the app. If the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty that cannot be excluded, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price paid for the app, if any; Apple has no further warranty obligation to you to the extent allowed by law. Nothing in these terms limits a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms. When you accept these terms, Apple will have the right to enforce the app-related provisions against you as a third-party beneficiary. You must also comply with any applicable third-party terms when using the app.

Legal compliance and developer contact

You must use Fundamental in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, professional obligations, and export or sanctions rules. Questions, complaints, support requests, and legal claims about the app should be sent to the developer: Fundamental team, support@fundamental.lifestyle. Nothing in these terms waives non-waivable consumer rights or legal remedies.

Beta software

Fundamental is being actively developed. Features may change, behave unexpectedly, or be removed without prior notice. We will do our best to preserve your data, but during beta we make no guarantee of uninterrupted service or the long-term availability of any specific feature.

Termination

You can stop using the app at any time. You can delete your account and all associated server-side data from the Profile screen.

We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these terms, that is being used to harm other users, or that has been inactive for an extended period. Where reasonable, we will give you notice and a chance to export your data before doing so.

Disclaimers

The app is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent allowed by law, we disclaim all warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, free of bugs, or appropriate for any specific health goal.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Fundamental, its operators, contributors, and licensors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profit, or goodwill, arising out of your use of the app, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the service in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) US$50.

Indemnity

You agree to defend and hold us harmless from any claim brought by a third party arising out of your misuse of the app, your violation of these terms, or your infringement of any other person's rights.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which Fundamental is operated, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved in the courts of that jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you may also have rights in your local jurisdiction that cannot be waived by contract; nothing in these terms affects those rights.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the app evolves. Material changes will be communicated through the app and on this page. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Contact

If you have any questions about these terms, please write to support@fundamental.lifestyle.